0180 - Antonius Marcus Aurelius, [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome, dies at 58 0432 - St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave 0455 - Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor 0461 - St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend) 1040 - Harold, British King (1035-40), dies 1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England 1521 - Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Philippines 1521 - Magelhaes lands on Homohon 1526 - French king Francois I freed from Spain 1537 - French troops invade Flanders 1580 - Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam 1658 - Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered 1672 - England declares war on Netherlands 1722 - Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente 1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day 1755 - Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief 1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at Crown and Thistle Tavern 1762 - 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC 1766 - Britain repeals Stamp Act 1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War 1800 - English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die 1824 - England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement 1833 - Phoenix Society forms (NY) 1836 - Texas abolishes slavery 1842 - Indians land in Ohio, a 12�-mile area in Upper Sandusky 1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour 1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London 1849 - Willem II Frederik GL, King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56 1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts 1860 - Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh 1861 - Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed 1863 - Battle of Kelly's Ford, VA (211 casualities) 1868 - Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued 1870 - Mass legislature authorizes incorporation of Wellesley Female Seminary 1871 - National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized 1876 - 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks) 1876 - Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes and Oglala-Sioux indian camps 1884 - John Joseph Montgomery makes 1st glider flight, Otay, California 1886 - Carrollton Massacre, (Mississippi) 20 blacks killed 1891 - British Steamer "Utopia" sinks off Gibraltar killing 574 1894 - US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US 1897 - Bob Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title 1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes) 1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die 1902 - Stanley Cup: Montreal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1 1905 - Eleanor Roosevelt marries FDR in NY 1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckrake" 1908 - Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Burns KOs Roche in 88 seconds) 1908 - Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 1 for heavyweight boxing title 1912 - Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick 1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis 1917 - Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne [NS] 1918 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford 1918 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Nathaniel Niles 1919 - Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hr day and minimum wages 1921 - Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London) 1921 - Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics 1921 - Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die) 1924 - Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition 1924 - Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats 1926 - Dutch Calvinists oust Rev J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3 1926 - Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations 1927 - US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty 1929 - General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel 1929 - Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid 1931 - Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee 1932 - German police raid Hitler's nazi-headquarter 1941 - National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC opens 1942 - Belzec Concentration Camp opens-30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported 1942 - Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander 1943 - Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sinks 1944 - Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke 1945 - Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra 1950 - Belgian government of Eyskens resigns 1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced 1951 - government of Drees takes power 1953 - Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M 1953 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1955 - Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montreal 1956 - 8th Emmy Awards: Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show and Lucy Ball 1957 - Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted 1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, president of Philipines dies in a plane crash 1958 - Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape 1959 - Australia and USSR restore diplomatic relations 1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India 1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA 1961 - NY DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players 1961 - South Africa leaves British Commonwealth 1963 - Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game 1963 - Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified (canonized in 1975) 1963 - Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese 1965 - Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) 1966 - South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund 1966 - US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean 1968 - 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington, DC by US and 6 European nations 1968 - Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open 1969 - Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM 1969 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open 1970 - Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of LA Dodgers 1970 - US casts their 1st UN Security Council veto (Support England) 1972 - Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK 1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge 1973 - St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday 1974 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International 1975 - Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000m (1:16.92) 1976 - Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76) 1976 - Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast 1978 - Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day 1979 - Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne 1981 - FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms 1982 - 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead in El Salvador 1983 - 9th People's Choice Awards 1985 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open 1985 - Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623' 1986 - Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF 1987 - IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3 1987 - Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an innings of 96 v Pak 1988 - Highest scoring NCAA basketball game; Loyola-Marymont 119, Wyoming 115 1988 - Iran says Iraq uses poison gas 1989 - Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade 1990 - PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak 1991 - 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty 1991 - Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade 1991 - NJ raises turnpike tolls 70% 1991 - Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International 1992 - 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire 1992 - 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentine 1992 - De Klerk wins a white only referendum 1992 - Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires killing 29 1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit 1993 - 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta 1994 - Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed) 1994 - It is announced there is no smoking in Cleve Indians new ballpark 1995 - British � hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record) 1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House 1995 - USt approves 1st chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co 1996 - Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship 1996 - Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title 1996 - Montreal Canadian's 1st game in their new arena 1998 - USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for 1st Olympic Gold medal 1999 - The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal 2003 - Edging to the brink of war, President George W. Bush gave Saddam Hussein 48 hours to leave his country. Iraq rejected the ultimatum 2005 - Baseball players Rafael Palmeiro and Sammy Sosa testified before Congress that they hadn't used steroids while Mark McGwire refused to say whether he had
